Reader recommendation: Jubilee
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March 16, 2012
Jubilee, by Margaret Walker, a powerful historical novel set before, during, and after the Civil War, offers an insider鈥檚 view of life as a slave as experienced by the author鈥檚 great-grandmother. Walker鈥檚 beautiful language, combined with the story, makes this a hard book to put down.